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Producing Fuels and Fine Chemicals from Biomass Using Nanomaterials
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Producing Fuels and Fine Chemicals from Biomass Using Nanomaterials

by Rafael Luque, Alina Mariana Balu
October 2013
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
352 pages
12h 45m
English
CRC Press
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233Processes for Production of Chemicals from Carbohydrates
9.4 PRODUCTION OF FURAN DICARBOXYLIC
ACID VIA FURANIC INTERMEDIATES
Where the acid-catalyzed dehydration of pentoses gives rise to furfural as described
above, the similar dehydration of hexoses gives rise to a group of chemicals called
furanics, of which hydroxymethyl furfural (HMF) and levulinic acid (LA) are
the most commonly observed compounds. Both compounds have been identied
by Werpy and Petersen
9
as important building blocks of the future. HMF has
recently received a lot of attention as it can be oxidized to obtain furan dicarbox-
ylic acid (FDCA), as starting monomer in the production of polyethylene furandi-
carboxylate, or PEF, a fully bio-based material suitable for w
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ISBN: 9781466553392